FUNERAL or Mn. HUSKISSON.—The last honours to this excellent man
and profound statesman were paid on Friday week. At the earliest solicitations of his constituents, respectfully conveyed through the me- dium of Lord Granville, Mrs. liMikiSS011 was induced to forego the wish she had at first expressed that the funeral should ii a iiriviite (me. The body was in consequence removed from Eccles to Liverpool ; and every preparation which the veneration for his virtues and talents could sug- gest, was zealously made to give dignity to his interment. The gentle- men of the procession began to assemble at the Town-hall, where the body lay, as early as nine o'clock. At ten, the procession, in the order previously agreed on, was formed, and at a quarter past ten it began to move. Immediately after the mutes who beaded the column, marched twelve hundred gentlemen, six abreast ; these were followed by the Committee appointed to arrange the ceremony of the funeral, the clergy- men of the town, and fifteen private carriages, with the pall-bearers and the medical attendant. Then came the body, in a hearse drawn by six horses, with suitable accompaniments. The mourning coach which followed the hearse contained General Huskisson, and Captain Huskisson, R. N., the two surviving brothers of the deceased. Three other mourning-coaches, containing Lords Colville and Granville, and Mr. Littleton and the Reverend W. Cockburn, the executors of Mr. Huskisson's will, came after the chief mourners. The Mayor's state carriage, followed by four hundred gentlemen on foot, six abreast, closed the procession. The pall-bearers were the Mayor of Liverpool, Earl Gower, Mr. Stanley, 3I.P., Sir Stratford Canning, Mr. Doherty, M.P., Mr. Lawrence, Lord Stanley, Lord Sandell, Mr. Patten, M.P., Sir John Tobin, Mr. Denison Mr. Gladstone. The officiating de rgymen—Reverend Jonathan Brooks, Reverend Thomas Blackman. Medical Attendant—Dr- Brandreth. It required half an hour to marshal the procession : its length when marshalled was very nearly half amile. The Committee, with much good sense, had the centre of the streets through which it was to move railed off; so that every one of the immense crowd of spectators could with- out difficulty see the procession ; and the most perfect and orderly beha- viour marked the whole proceedings. The place chosen for the interment was, as we mentioned last week, the New Cemetery which has been formed at Liverpool—a kind of Pere la Chaise, projected with the same view, and intended to be decorated, by the taste of those whose friends and re- latives may in future occupy it, with similar monuments. To facilitate the access of the procession, a space had been railed off opposite the gate, by which the gentlemen in front were enabled to file off on each side, so as to leave way for the hearse and its attendants. The proces- sion reached the Cemetery at twelve o'clock. The funeral service in the chapel, which was hung with black, and had the escutcheon of the deceased suspended in front of the desk, was read by the Reverend J. Brooks, Rector of Liverpool. The body was then borne to the grave ; • where the remaining service being read, the coffin was gradually lowered, and the earth closed for ever over one of the most worthy men that ever trod upon it. The entire ceremony was finished by half-past one; when the company and the immense crowd quietly dispersed. The lire can readily believe that no such intention was ever entertained, and THE INOLIS AGAIN.—Captain Dudman, of the Inglis, was held to that it was a matter of the slightest possible consequence if it were or bail on Tuesday, for flogging one William Allen, at St. Helena. Allen, • not. Our correspondent says there was no ballot for the Liverpool it seems, had gone on shore with the jolly-boat with the captain and dinner, and that the late and present Mayors were not excluded. Both a midshipman • the former forbid the men to leave the boat, but the these facts were distinctly stated by the Liverpool correspondent of one latter gave Aden permission to do so ; and he was absent about five mi- of the morning papers. We have the authority of the paper for them, nutes. When he returned, he was immediately sent on board, and put and only the authority of an anonymous correspondent against them_ in irons. In the evening, be was taken on shore, and placed in the by every rule of sound evidence we are called on to believe the paper. guardhouse ; next day, he was again brought on board, and, after a Our correspondent says, the only reason why both lines of the rail road caddy court of inquiry, as it is called, condemned to receive three dozen were used, was to permit the Duke of 'Wellington " to advance or recede lashes ; which were inflicted with great severity. Captain Dudman said, at his pleasure." It may be so : still it was unnecessary. The whole about two hours after Allen was sent on board, there was a signal of of the company were bound to the same place, the Duke arrived at the a mutiny made by the commanding officer. He went on board, and spot where the lamented accident happened before any of the rest. They found.the mutiny to be—that Allen and the three men had resisted his Lad not to wait for him in fact ; and even had he been inclined to delay, being put in irons—he was put in irons notwithstanding—and that Allen courtesy required they should wait for him. Still our correspondent's had been insolent. Next day, the Governor of St. Helena [who is reason is more honourable to the parties than our own, and we give he ?] and Captain Rennie of the Ariadne came on beard, and asked them all the credit of it. The next objection we shall give in his own the men if they had any complaint to make ; and they made none. The words :— court of inquiry then took place, and Allen was flogged. The Governor "I pass over," sayshe, "the effect of the Duke's gri of in keeping him in the car- directed the punishmentto be inflicted with severity, as an example. sine In Manchester ; the real fact of which was, he was so dreadfully alarmed, and Mr. Ballantine said, that the law did not justify the captain of a mer- not, I am sorry to say, without some reason, by the mob, that he retreated v hi; so much haste as to throw the whole train of engines into confusion—which was the chant vessel to flog his seamen ; circumstances, where the safety of the cause of the latereturn at night." ship was at stake, might render it necessary, but even in that case, the
The idea of the victor in a hundred fields being afraid of a mob of sailor could question by what authority he had been punished. In the Manchester weavers, has the merit of novelty at least. The observation, present case, the complainant, if he had committed any offence, ought however, which seems most to have roused the anger of our corres- to have been taken before the local authorities of the island, off which
roam; is one in which we alluded to the different conduct of the Duke the ship was lying, who would have aisposed of the case in a proper and of the Liverpool shopkeepers- Now that observation was not made manner. There was no occasion to can a ivaurt of inquiry, while the causelessly nor perversely—it was thrust upon us. What was the fact ? ship was lying off a place under the dominion of the English Govern. The accounts from Liverpool stated, that the shops being shut on ac- meat ; on such a precedent, the master of a vessel in the river might count of Mr. Huskisson's death, th,,refore the streets were the more punish any of his crew, instead of coming on shore for a warrant. An crowded to witness the Duke of Welling,ton's entry ; and it was added, assault had been proved, and be should require Captain Dudman to enter that although it was not thought lie would go through the whole of the into his own recognizances in the sum of .501. to appear to take his trial streets previously pointed out for the line of procession, lie would at at the next Admiralty Sessions.
least go through a part of diem. We are not so excessively silly as to Several other applications of a similar nature were made ; but the
suppose, that every or perhaps any man who put up his shutters on the Magistrate declined granting warrants, On the ground that Captain Dud. occasion felt a personal grief on account of Mr. Huskisson's death. But man was already bound over, and was therefore to be found. [Some
even public grief called for the accompaniment of public decency. To allowances may be made for captains of the sea when they display igno.
take occasion from a public mourning to pour into the streets for the rance of the law of the land • but we think a little regard for law and purpose of witnessing a joyous procession—to take advantage of the con,- justice in the Governor of laud; Helena might have been looked for. It mon grief for the indulgence of common enjoyment—may in the eyes is, we think, due to that person to have his conduct vindicated, if it ad. of our correspondent be extremely reasonable, and we shall not seek to mits of vindication, and to the public to have it punished if it do not. disturb his opinion while we keep our own. Our correspondent speaks It was his unquestionable duty to interpose to prevent the illegal treat- of the liberality of Liverpool. There are many liberal men there, we ment of a British sultject ; and by Captain Dudman's account, he only doubt not. We have not forgotten that the virtuous Roscoe is an in- interfered for the purpose of addino-D brutality to illegality.] habitant of that great and enlightened town. But the railway in (pies- AN IMPUDENT IMPOSTOR.—DA youth smartly attired in a dress re.
tion is an ill-selected example of the liberality he panegyrises. The sembling that of a midshipman, and whose name appears to be Barlow, people of Liverpool put carts on the road to Manchester, because they a few evenings since proceeded to the house of Lady Jermaine, in Park had goods to convey to Manchester ; they made a canal, because the Crescent, and requested to speak with her ladyship. He was shown into transport of goods had increased, and carts cost a great deal of money; the drawing-room ; and on her ladyship appearing, Mr. Barlow, very they made a railway, because the transport of goods continued great, politely, and with many apologies for his intrusion, stated that lie was
and a canal cost a great deal of money. In all this there was just as the son of Captain Kier ; that he had come from Dover, and was going much liberality displayed as in another carrying-trade—the conveyance to Liverpool, but in consequence of losing his purse, he was in want of
of live lumber from Cape Coast to Jamaica—by which some thirty years some money. Her ladyship, believing the story, ordered a bed to be ago Liverpool was as well known as it is now by its railway. Profit was provided for the son of Captain Kier ; and in the morning, having given the object of the speculators in the one case, and in the other. That it him some money, directed a servant to accompany him to the ship ma has been sought in later instances from more legitimate sources, we have which he Was to embark. On their way thither, Mr. Barlow gave evi- to thank the general intelligence of Englishmen, and Mr. Brougham's dent symptoms of uneasiness ; and his conduct and expressions became Bill—not the "liberality" of joint-stock company speculators.] so vague and unsatisfactory, that the servant felt no doubt but that his
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